Word: habited
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...make matters worse for Kirkland, smiles and dimples weren’t enough to manage University finances: the school ran into an enormous deficit. At a Harvard Corporation meeting, a member attacked him for his habit of “ignoring the votes of the corporation with which he did not agree.” Problems with listening and collaboration were to remain a continuing affliction of Harvard presidents. In 1828, still ill from a stroke he suffered in 1827, Kirkland resigned...
...into one, both complexity and empathy are lost. Readers turn inwards, accept what they are told is wrong with them, and accept the automatic solution. But if you have been tainted by the touch of Albom, all is not yet lost. The best way to break the self-help habit is to quit cold-turkey: put down “The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem,” turn off Dr. Phil, and stop your correspondence with Dear Abby. If you still feel in need of redemption, go buy Albom’s new book and throw...
...hurry. I wanted time to think and be ready to cope with whatever was coming. After tea, I went downstairs slowly, deliberately creating the impression of composure. When I entered the living room, both men were sprawled on the sofa. Qi stood up from force of habit, but when he saw that the other man remained seated, he went red in the face with embarrassment and hastily sat down again. It was a calculated gesture of discourtesy. In 1949, not long after the Communist army entered Shanghai, the new policeman in our area came unannounced to our house. He marched...
...Previous legislation banning smoking in certain public areas had largely been flaunted; successive hikes in per-pack taxes were viewed as more efficient in getting the French to kick the habit - and are believed to have helped drive the smoking proportion of France's population down from more than one in three to 26.7%, which ranks it in the middle of Europe's averages. But with nearly half of French people aged 20-25 having developed the habit, the smokers' percentage of the population is set to rise again, and with it the number of deaths. That...
...World Bank Institute, the bank's in-house think tank, estimates that more than $1 trillion is paid in bribes each year, lining the pockets of officials at the expense of economies, distorting competition and giving business a bad name the world over. The U.S. tried to outlaw the habit with its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, which makes it unlawful for any American firm to make a corrupt payment to a foreign official. But that was long the exception; many other rich countries simply turned a blind eye. In Germany and Luxembourg , bribes used to be tax deductible...